John Donnan FREDERICKS

(1869-1945)

FREDERICKS, John Donnan, a
Representative from California; born in Burgettstown, Washington
County, Pa., September 10, 1869; attended the public schools and
Washington and Jefferson College, Washington, Pa.; studied law; was
admitted to the bar in 1896 and commenced practice in Los Angeles,
Calif.; served as an adjutant in the Seventh Regiment, California
Volunteer Infantry, during the Spanish-American War in 1898;
district attorney of Los Angeles County 1903-1915; unsuccessful
Republican candidate for Governor of California in 1915; elected as
a Republican to the Sixty-eighth Congress to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Henry Z. Osborne; reelected to the
Sixty-ninth Congress and served from May 1, 1923, to March 3, 1927;
was not a candidate for renomination in 1926; resumed the practice
of law at Los Angeles where he died August 26, 1945; interment in
Forest Lawn Memorial Park.

Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present